United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Great Torrington.

July leads for comfortable weather in Great Torrington: typically 19.3°C by day, 13.2°C at night, with 71 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high19.3°C

Typical low13.2°C

Rain in July71 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

69climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

35climate match

Outdoors

June

June · July · September

78climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 13 against July’s 69 — days reach only 9.4°C, 15° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

139.4° / 4.1°

Feb

189.5° / 3.8°

Mar

2710.9° / 4.6°

Apr

3812.9° / 5.9°

May

5215.6° / 8.5°

Jun

6317.8° / 11.1°

Jul

6919.3° / 13.2°

Aug

6719.4° / 13.4°

Sep

6318.1° / 11.4°

Oct

4115.2° / 9.2°

Nov

2312.2° / 6.5°

Dec

1410.2° / 4.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Great Torrington — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 25 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.4°C	4.1°C	91 mm	15.2	9.1°C	8 h 23	13	Strong coverage
February	9.5°C	3.8°C	73 mm	12.5	8.4°C	9 h 55	18	Strong coverage
March	10.9°C	4.6°C	58 mm	11.9	8.4°C	11 h 42	27	Strong coverage
April	12.9°C	5.9°C	53 mm	10.2	9.4°C	13 h 44	38	Strong coverage
May	15.6°C	8.5°C	55 mm	9.8	11.2°C	15 h 30	52	Strong coverage
June	17.8°C	11.1°C	59 mm	10.3	13.6°C	16 h 30	63	Strong coverage
July	19.3°C	13.2°C	71 mm	10.9	15.7°C	16 h 06	69	Strong coverage
August	19.4°C	13.4°C	78 mm	12.3	16.9°C	14 h 33	67	Strong coverage
September	18.1°C	11.4°C	65 mm	11.1	16.5°C	12 h 33	63	Strong coverage
October	15.2°C	9.2°C	98 mm	15	15.2°C	10 h 36	41	Strong coverage
November	12.2°C	6.5°C	104 mm	17.2	13.0°C	8 h 50	23	Strong coverage
December	10.2°C	4.5°C	102 mm	16.3	10.7°C	7 h 57	14	Strong coverage

What has changed

Great Torrington runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+0.8

Feb

+1.4

Mar

+1.4

Apr

+1.6

May

+1.1

Jun

+1.0

Jul

+0.6

Aug

+0.4

Sep

+0.7

Oct

+0.8

Nov

+1.2

Dec

+1.4

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 20.7°C.

Records at BUDE, 1960–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	15.5°C8 Jan 1998	-10.6°C14 Jan 1963	38 mm23 Jan 1960	179 mm1995 · driest 18 mm in 1964	67
February	17.8°C25 Feb 2019	-11.1°C16 Feb 1969	34 mm9 Feb 2009	179 mm2024 · driest 1 mm in 1986	67
March	23.4°C29 Mar 2021	-7.8°C3 Mar 1986	42 mm21 Mar 1976	144 mm1981 · driest 8 mm in 1961	67
April	27.5°C30 Apr 2025	-3.8°C2 Apr 1996	40 mm15 Apr 2025	120 mm2000 · driest 9 mm in 1984	67
May	31.2°C24 May 2026	-1.7°C6 May 1979	40 mm8 May 2000	128 mm2000 · driest 6 mm in 1991	67
June	30.8°C29 Jun 1976	1.1°C1 Jun 1975	58 mm11 Jun 1993	142 mm2020 · driest 9 mm in 1975	67
July	31.7°C11 Jul 1983	4.2°C3 Jul 1984	73 mm28 Jul 1969	210 mm2009 · driest 6 mm in 1983	66
August	30.1°C4 Aug 2003	3.9°C30 Aug 1964	47 mm16 Aug 2004	177 mm2004 · driest 11 mm in 1981	66
September	29.3°C6 Sep 2021	1.4°C27 Sep 1990	54 mm20 Sep 1980	180 mm1974 · driest 5 mm in 2014	66
October	25.1°C1 Oct 2011	-3.4°C30 Oct 2018	52 mm26 Oct 1960	238 mm1960 · driest 14 mm in 1965	66
November	18.2°C1 Nov 2015	-6.0°C28 Nov 2010	46 mm14 Nov 1980	186 mm2002 · driest 46 mm in 1988	66
December	17.2°C1 Dec 1985	-8.9°C26 Dec 1962	39 mm18 Dec 1999	218 mm1999 · driest 20 mm in 1963	66

Typical days per month at BUDE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	5	2
February	0	5	2
March	0	4	1
April	<1	1	1
May	<1	<1	2
June	1	0	2
July	2	0	2
August	1	0	2
September	<1	0	2
October	0	<1	3
November	0	2	3
December	0	5	3

How often, not how much — every day in BUDE’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	51%	8%	66%	7.6–10.8°C
February	0%	44%	7%	59%	6.9–11.0°C
March	<1%	38%	5%	52%	8.9–12.2°C
April	3%	33%	4%	42%	11.0–14.4°C
May	9%	32%	5%	40%	13.6–17.4°C
June	17%	32%	5%	42%	16.3–19.2°C
July	25%	33%	6%	43%	17.5–21.4°C
August	25%	37%	7%	47%	18.2–21.0°C
September	15%	38%	8%	53%	16.7–19.1°C
October	2%	48%	9%	63%	13.9–16.5°C
November	0%	55%	10%	72%	10.4–13.3°C
December	0%	51%	10%	67%	8.1–11.5°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1960Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 66-year average. Warmest: 2023. Coolest: 1963.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2648004
NOAA station: UKE00105873 · BUDE
Station distance: 31.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 50.95°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 25 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from BUDE is what differs

Barnstaple→Bideford→Ilfracombe→Braunton→Launceston→Northam→

Or put two places side by side: Great Torrington vs Barnstaple

Best time to visitGreat Torrington.

July

July

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Great Torrington runs +1.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Great Torrington.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Great Torrington runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.